Posted
by
timothyon Tuesday September 17, 2013 @10:12AM
from the just-in-time-for-the-next-big-thing dept.

hypnosec writes "Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.12-rc1, marking the first major development in over two weeks for the forthcoming successor of the Linux 3.11 kernel. Announcing the closure of the 3.12 merge window, Torvalds said in the release announcement that the window was fairly normal. Dissecting the updates, he noted that 73 percent of them are related to drivers, 12 percent related to architecture updates, and 6 percent related to file systems. ... Torvalds liked the 'scalability improvements that got merged this time around.' Torvalds also mentioned the tty layer locking getting resolved, and work on dentry refcount scalability."

1. Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
2. Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and the pig likes it.
3. Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
4. When the wise man argues with the fool, the fool crapfloods the thread and there is no peace.

A Slashdot post for every minor release of the Linux kernel.I was ok with Linux Kernel 3.11, as it kinda made fun of the Popular Windows 3.11 version.Also when Linux lost his stuff when his Hard Drive died.But to fill stories with every Minor release, it gets kinda silly.

Having said that, RedHat is still stable on kernel 2.3.32, with some features backported. I WOULD be interested in knowing when the distros jump to a 3.10 or higher kernel. Bcache is going to be awesome for writeback caching.

I was ok with Linux Kernel 3.11, as it kinda made fun of the Popular Windows 3.11 version.

I think I speak for everyone here at Slashdot when I say that it's a massive relief that you were OK with Slashdot reporting on Linux Kernel 3.11.

However, I'm sure you don't speak for everyone here on Slashdot when you complain about kernel release news. More than a few of us are interested in such things, and would like to discuss the releases here on Slashdot, preferably with a minimum of whining. You've already used up the quota here...

RC1's significance is that marks the end of the merge window. It means that large chunk of features have made it in which is interesting. It also marks the start of the testing phase, which we want a lot of participation in. There are a lot of reasons why RC1 is interesting and noteworthy.

My thoughts on other RCs? While they're an important part of the process, they aren't interesting enough to warrant much discussion. Which is why you won't see articles on them.